Wikio

Wikio is basically a search engine with which an individual can find blogs and news. It allows users to submit a website or write a news. Wikio serves as a platform where a user can follow news from a particular website or can look for news available about a particular issue on every website on wikio.

History

Wikio was created by Pierre Chappaz in 2006. Chappaz is also popular for creatin kelkoo.The office of wikio is based in luxemborg and has startup capital of around 1,666,175 euros.

Layout

Grey and white form the background of homepage. White color always support and compliment links over it and use of this color has increased visual appeal of the homepage. Navigation bar on the top of homepage consists of logo in left corner and search bar in the middle with popular news in bottom. Dark blue color of this bar provides contrast that is required by white background of the homepage.

Content

Wikio is basically a search engine for news and blogs. So main importance is given to news on the homepage. First option for looking out for the news is provided in the navigation bar on the to p of homepage. Here you can check your kind of article from the section named news, blog, shopping, videos and top blogs. You can also search for news from keywords. Than major portion of webpage is covered under three sections namely Breaking news, Top videos and Blogs. Main stories under this section are displayed with number of votes they have given by the users. A user is directed towards the particular website by clicking on on these links.

Another interesting feature is tag cloud for Name and important topics. These help users to look out for news and articles by name and a keyword from the tag cloud.

In the bottom of website various sections like about wikio , wikio shopping,  wikio news categories and wikio tools are given which helps users to browse through various areas of website.

Users can vote for a article and comment on it. More number of votes for a particular article or news increases its visibility on the website. RSS feeds on every page helps users to subscribe to the news.

Conclusion

Wikio is a wonderful website for news and blog lovers. It is easy to use and provides a platform to get his hands on news and articles available on the internet in formal websites as well as blogs.